Duolingo: Language & Chess

Name: Duolingo: Language & Chess
Rating: 4.7 (283169 reviews)
Author: Duolingo

Learn Spanish, Maths & more

Free · In-App Purchases

283k Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

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Age Rating

4+
Years
Chart

No. 1
Education
Developer

Duolingo
Language

EN
+ 30 More
Size

500.4
MB

Learn a new language, chess & more with the world's most downloaded education app! Duolingo is the fun, free app for learning 40+ languages through quick, bite-sized lessons. Practice speaking, reading, listening & writing to build your vocabulary & grammar skills. Designed by learning experts & loved by hundreds of millions worldwide, our lessons make learning effective & fun and help you prepare for real conversations in Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Italian, German, English and more. And now, you can learn CHESS on Duolingo! Whether you're a total beginner or looking to level up your game, you'll love learning chess the Duolingo way. Play matches and fun chess lessons for all levels, no matter the language - chess, ajedrez, xadrez, schach, Шахматы, الشطرنج. • Chess: Learn the moves, level up your game & play matches in our Chess course. Learn the basics, solve fun chess puzzles & improve your strategy with guided lessons. Whether you're new to chess or already play, our course is designed to help you have fun and build real skills. Checkmate! • Math: Forget lectures and math worksheets! Built by learning experts, our Math course makes math feel like a game. Boost learning and fight the summer slide with standards-aligned math lessons for elementary school, middle school, and high school students. • Music: Learn how to read music & play songs in our Music course, no instrument needed! Using an on-screen keyboard, you'll learn bit-by-bit. Whether you're learning a language for travel, school, career or your brain health, you'll love learning with Duolingo. Why Duolingo? • Duolingo is fun & effective. Game-like language lessons & fun characters help you build speaking, reading, listening, & writing skills, plus enjoy fun chess & competitive online chess in one app. • Duolingo works. Designed by learning experts, Duolingo has a science-based teaching methodology proven to foster long-term knowledge retention across language lessons & chess lessons alike. • Track your progress. Work toward your learning goals with playful rewards & achievements when you make practicing language lessons or chess online part of your daily habit. • Join millions of learners. Stay motivated with competitive Leaderboards as you learn languages & play chess online alongside our global community. • Every course is free. Learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Dutch, Irish, Danish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian, Hebrew, Welsh, Arabic, Latin, Hawaiian, Scottish Gaelic, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, English, & even High Valyrian! And now, learn Math, Music & improve your Chess skills with fun, bite-sized lessons. What the world is saying about Duolingo: "Far & away the best language-learning app." - The Wall Street Journal "This free app & website is among the most effective language-learning methods I've tried… lessons come in the form of brief challenges, speaking, translating, answering multiple-choice questions, that keep me coming back for more." - The New York Times "Duolingo may hold the secret to the future of education." - TIME Magazine "Duolingo is cheerful, lighthearted & fun." - Forbes "I Can't Stop Playing Duolingo Chess." - Wired If you like Duolingo, try Super Duolingo for 14 days free! Learn a language fast with no ads & get fun perks like Unlimited Energy & Monthly Streak Repair. If you choose to purchase Super Duolingo, payment will be charged to your Apple account, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Auto-renewal may be turned off at any time by going to your settings in the App Store after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://www.duolingo.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.duolingo.com/terms

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Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

283k Ratings

Editors’ Choice

One of our favourite apps for learning another language, the process is genuinely fun. What’s more, all those languages and games are available for free!
I didn’t believe before I tried
1 Jan
rafikonessiniento
Great way to learn and practice foreign languages. New words are jumping in randomly to memorize. Mistakes correction in place. Nothing is lost. Also possibility to have dialogues with AI makes it more attractive and supports probabilistic practice and corrections. All easy and intuitive. Great idea to learn foreign languages while using another foreign language as system language! Also built-in Chess playing tutorial and other games. Duolingo is actually a game or competition type learning platform enabling also to follow friends as well as team learning efforts setting. Also good idea with daily remainders and small daily targets as well as weekly, bi-weekly, monthly etc targets with prize. All this makes you feel the desire for getting points and achievements while enjoying learning language. This is really something. I’m after 9 days of German and happy to say that I tripled the amount of new words. I’m already thinking to engage Spanish but maybe closer to 2027 when my German lifts up. Don’t hesitate to subscribe Duolingo. If you follow the desire for improvement, it will help you and though pay back quick.
I didn’t believe before I tried
1 Jan
rafikonessiniento

Great way to learn and practice foreign languages. New words are jumping in randomly to memorize. Mistakes correction in place. Nothing is lost. Also possibility to have dialogues with AI makes it more attractive and supports probabilistic practice and corrections. All easy and intuitive. Great idea to learn foreign languages while using another foreign language as system language! Also built-in Chess playing tutorial and other games. Duolingo is actually a game or competition type learning platform enabling also to follow friends as well as team learning efforts setting. Also good idea with daily remainders and small daily targets as well as weekly, bi-weekly, monthly etc targets with prize. All this makes you feel the desire for getting points and achievements while enjoying learning language. This is really something. I’m after 9 days of German and happy to say that I tripled the amount of new words. I’m already thinking to engage Spanish but maybe closer to 2027 when my German lifts up. Don’t hesitate to subscribe Duolingo. If you follow the desire for improvement, it will help you and though pay back quick.
Used to be great
10/08/2025
Kicia_
After recent update you have 25 energy not 5 hearts. Previously you was losing heart after mistake, but now you lose energy after every exercise. After perfect lesson you have less energy so you can’t do as much lessons as before. You can always recharge a little after watching adds but there is bigger problem. As final part as lesson you can do more difficult version of exercises. As free to practice you can’t do it now. Those exercises takes two times more energy. Even if you are doing perfect you can’t finish it achieving more exp. I just try to do that. I had 23 energy and I did only one mistake. I did 75% of that lesson and run out of energy. I don’t even have mark that lesson as complete. That’s ridiculous. Freezing your strike is really expensive so why should I pay 600 to finish lesson. I just can’t afford both. There are lessons you can buy so I don’t need one that seems to be free but then you realize that if you want to finish it you have to spend your diamonds. You don’t pay and you don’t have lesson complete and any energy left. I feel like keeping strike is not worth it. Some more changes making doing your lessons impossible to do and I feel like uninstalling Duolingo. I don’t mind add but I hate the idea of making me spending. In the same time I’m so broke that I can’t afford super Duolingo or anything.For learning is still good app. It makes studying easier.
Used to be great
10/08/2025
Kicia_

After recent update you have 25 energy not 5 hearts. Previously you was losing heart after mistake, but now you lose energy after every exercise. After perfect lesson you have less energy so you can’t do as much lessons as before. You can always recharge a little after watching adds but there is bigger problem. As final part as lesson you can do more difficult version of exercises. As free to practice you can’t do it now. Those exercises takes two times more energy. Even if you are doing perfect you can’t finish it achieving more exp. I just try to do that. I had 23 energy and I did only one mistake. I did 75% of that lesson and run out of energy. I don’t even have mark that lesson as complete. That’s ridiculous. Freezing your strike is really expensive so why should I pay 600 to finish lesson. I just can’t afford both. There are lessons you can buy so I don’t need one that seems to be free but then you realize that if you want to finish it you have to spend your diamonds. You don’t pay and you don’t have lesson complete and any energy left. I feel like keeping strike is not worth it. Some more changes making doing your lessons impossible to do and I feel like uninstalling Duolingo. I don’t mind add but I hate the idea of making me spending. In the same time I’m so broke that I can’t afford super Duolingo or anything.For learning is still good app. It makes studying easier.
Gone south
28/06/2025
Alex 🪳
Duolingo has taught me a lot, especially when I was a beginner in Spanish, but the new update is horrible. It seems that the radio and story elements of the course are now made using AI and it shows. They sound really unnatural and often don't make any sense. The sections are now way too short for the amount of vocabulary and I feel like I'm not learning anything. Some problems I had even before the update are that the course is Mexican Spanish (just guessing, not an expert in Spanish variations, but definitely a more Latin American version) and you can't choose Spain Spanish, so, for example, my answers are not accepted if I use the vosotros collocation of the verbs. There are so many differences between all the Spanish variations, that I think either all forms should be accepted or there should be two separate courses for Latin American Spanish and European (Spain) Spanish. Another one is that the app doesn't explain grammar, so you have to look for information on your own and often it's even more difficult, because the section / unit doesn't say which tense is being used. I also tried learning Swedish on Duolingo and the course is way worse than the Spanish one, I could barely learn anything from it. All in all it used to be a great addition to my Spanish learning process (never my main learning source), but now I'm thinking of canceling my subscription 😕
Gone south
28/06/2025
Alex 🪳

Duolingo has taught me a lot, especially when I was a beginner in Spanish, but the new update is horrible. It seems that the radio and story elements of the course are now made using AI and it shows. They sound really unnatural and often don't make any sense. The sections are now way too short for the amount of vocabulary and I feel like I'm not learning anything. Some problems I had even before the update are that the course is Mexican Spanish (just guessing, not an expert in Spanish variations, but definitely a more Latin American version) and you can't choose Spain Spanish, so, for example, my answers are not accepted if I use the vosotros collocation of the verbs. There are so many differences between all the Spanish variations, that I think either all forms should be accepted or there should be two separate courses for Latin American Spanish and European (Spain) Spanish. Another one is that the app doesn't explain grammar, so you have to look for information on your own and often it's even more difficult, because the section / unit doesn't say which tense is being used. I also tried learning Swedish on Duolingo and the course is way worse than the Spanish one, I could barely learn anything from it. All in all it used to be a great addition to my Spanish learning process (never my main learning source), but now I'm thinking of canceling my subscription 😕

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